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LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitter Tweaked for Missing the Metrics

Highflying Web names slapped for disappointing user growth rates.

The Metrics played out fairly brutally, once again, for some darlings of tech as the latest earnings reports rumbled into town.

First there was Twitter Tuesday, when the self-publishing news network, or social-media outfit, or whatever you want to call it—no one has ever been able to settle on a single definition—reported that sales more than doubled in the three months ended in March, beating Wall Street's expectations for its...